[NA-Discuss] DIY Broadband- High Speed solutions for remote areas

Tue Feb 19 06:47:14 UTC 2013

I beleive the issue is not so much the last mile as the middle mile.
In the UK, where the story is based, BT is heavily regulated to be
open access and must sell wholesale transit at the same competitive
rate to all comers..

j

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Houle Louis
<Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org> wrote:
> In Canada, in US also, and the business model that is being followed by
> incumbents will probably never work in regional areas.
> This is why ISOC Quebec supported Connect Quebec for remote areas since
> 2007.
> The main problem that we face is :
> a) the lack of expertise in Internet technologies by local authorities in
> rural regions;
> b) a propensity to believe that Mother Bell (or any other known incumbent)
> will finally offer the last mile High Speed service.
>
> Question 1: If you spend 1M$ to expand fiber for 1M  dwellers living in a
> 100 square kilometers area, what will be your income?
> Question 2: If you spend 150K$ to expand fiber in a 150K dwellers living in
> a 1M square kilometers area, what will be your excuse during the annual
> stakeholders meeting?
>
> Louis Houle
> Président
> La Société Internet du Québec (ISOC Québec)
> Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org
>
> Le 2013-02-18 09:46, Garth Bruen a écrit :
>
>> On the last call there was some discussion about slow speeds in Canada
>>
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>> areas
>>
>> And this relates to NARALO, how?
>>
>> j
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Glenn McKnight <glenn.mcknight at ieee.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/02/14/172011262/diy-br
>>> oadband-comes-to-the-english-countryside
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In a fast-moving world, people from all over have demanded faster
>>> Internet speeds. But when you live out in the middle of nowhere, you
>>> can feel like you're in the Internet slow lane because broadband just
>>
>> isn't available.
>>>
>>> Residents of England's rural Lancashire decided that enough was enough
>>> with their slow, limited connections. They came to the conclusion that
>>> no major supplier would be out their way anytime soon, the BBC
>>> reports<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348>.
>>> Broadband companies said it would be too expensive to wire up the
>>> sparsely populated area.
>>>
>>> So Lancashire residents took matters into their own hands and
>>> createdB4RN<http://b4rn.org.uk/> (pronounced
>>> "barn") - Broadband for the Rural North.
>>> [image: In much of America, the availability of online video is often
>>> frustrated by slow broadband speeds. In this 2011 photo, Valerie Houde
>>> waits for a dial-up Internet connection in East Burke,
>>> Vt.]<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/25/163570116/w
>>> atching-tv-online-often-exposes-slow-bandwidth>
>>> All Tech Considered
>>> <http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/>Watching
>>> TV Online Often Exposes Slow
>>> Bandwidth<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/25/163570
>>> 116/watching-tv-online-often-exposes-slow-bandwidth>
>>> [image: Broadband Internet access at
>>> home.]<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/03/23/149215373
>>> /tracking-high-speed-internet-in-your-neighborhood>
>>> All Tech Considered
>>> <http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/>Tracking
>>> High-Speed Internet In Your
>>> Neighborhood<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/03/23/149
>>> 215373/tracking-high-speed-internet-in-your-neighborhood>
>>>
>>> Funded and operated by volunteers in the community, B4RN digs trenches
>>> to lay the fiber optic wires necessary to connect the residents to
>>> super-high-speed Internet for less than $50 per month.
>>>
>>> A few locals have already been hooked up to the local network and
>>> their once ancient and tired computers are catching up with the times.
>>> Resident Harry Ball tells the BBC he's thrilled to be getting download
>>> speeds of 500 Mbps. "That's fabulous, isn't it?" he says.
>>>
>>> By comparison, the average U.S. Internet connection speed is a pokey
>>> 7.2 Mbps and the U.K. average is 6.3 Mbps, according to
>>> Akamai<http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/q3_2012_soti_infographic.pdf>.
>>> But both lag behind South Korea, which averages 14.7 Mbps (with
>>> average peaks of 48.8 Mbps).
>>>
>>> Watch the BBC's report <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21455795>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Glenn McKnight, B.A, M.A
>>> Chair: Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities(FBSC) IEEE HIC
>>> Committee Member IEEE PES CSI  Committee Member ICANN NARALO Member
>>> Oshawa, Ontario Canada glenn.mcknight at ieee.org
>>> SKYPE:   gmcknight
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